The State Department will no longer provide visas for the same-sex domestic partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations employees in a rule change that went into effect on Monday, potentially endangering those from countries that criminalize LGBTQ marriage.

Under the previous Obama administration policy, unmarried same-sex partners had been eligible for G-4 visas even though heterosexual couples only qualified if they were married. The State Department told ABC News that decision to change that rule was intended to “ensure and promote equal treatment.”

The United States informed foreign governments that they would allow “limited exceptions” to its new policy in cases involving diplomats from countries where same-sex marriage is illegal. But that government would have to provide documentation proving that same-sex marriage was illegal and commit to accepting same-sex partners of U.S. diplomats.

That exception was not offered to UN employees, at least 10 of which would have to marry by the end of the year for their partners’ visas to remain valid, the magazine reported.

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Meanwhile, the Financial Timesreported this morning that unfuckable fascist Stephen Miller has proposed ending student visas for Chinese students entirely earlier this year. The proposal has been sold as a sanction for Chinese spying, but the paper reported Miller also “argued that his plan would also hurt elite universities whose staff and students had slammed Mr Trump.”